Hello and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters

come to Talk Shop, I'm your host,

Joe Pug. Each episode here, we host a distinguished guest, and we ask them to go deep, on their

inspiration, on their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran,

frantically applying for a paycheck protection loan,

or else a scrappy upstart,

frantically soliciting donations on your SoundCloud page,

this is your show.

Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks

most. An ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

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